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Poverty Reform in Canada, 1958-1978
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Poverty Reform in Canada, 1958-1978

Rodney Haddow explains and compares the Canada Assistance Plan (CAP) and the Social Security Review, the two most extensive attempts by the federal government to reform Canadian poverty policy during the postwar era. Using previously confidential government documents and interviews with many of the important players, he examines the forces that stimulated the emergence and subsequent development of these two policy initiatives and the circumstances that determined their quite different fates.

Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy

Using various theoretical approaches, this book examines industrial relations, workers' compensation, occupational health, employment standards, training, and social assistance, measuring the impact of partisanship and globalization on policy-making in several areas. It is useful for those interested in the field of labour market policy.

Conservatism in Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Conservatism in Canada

Conservatism in Canada explores the ideological character of contemporary Canadian conservatism, its support in the electorate, its impact on public policies such as immigration and foreign policy, and its articulation at both federal and provincial levels.

Social Policy and Practice in Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

Social Policy and Practice in Canada

Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History traces the history of social policy in Canada from the period of First Nations’ control to the present day, exploring the various ways in which residents of the area known today as Canada have organized themselves to deal with (or to ignore) the needs of the ill, the poor, the elderly, and the young. This book is the first synthesis on social policy in Canada to provide a critical perspective on the evolution of social policy in the country. While earlier work has treated each new social program as a major advance, and reacted with shock to neoliberalism’s attack on social programs, Alvin Finkel demonstrates that right-wing and left-wing fo...

Encyclopedia of World Poverty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1761

Encyclopedia of World Poverty

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: SAGE

Provides more than eight hundred alphabetical entries that cover issues relating to poverty around the world.

The Unemployment Crisis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

The Unemployment Crisis

Comprises 12 papers. Discusses the impact of economic policy and unemployment insurance on unemployment. Includes a case study of unemployment in Ontario (Canada) and among Canadian aboriginal peoples.

Women, Work, and Coping
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Women, Work, and Coping

Until recently, theories and research about job stress and ways of coping have been based primarily on men's experience. Women's experience of stress and coping has remained unexplored, despite studies which show that women are confronted with more and different work-related stressors than men.

Trials of Labour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Trials of Labour

Brian Burtch looks at contemporary midwifery practice in Canada and the role of the state in shaping and defining that practice. He examines the qualifications of midwives and discusses their legal status, the legacy of competition between nurses and midwives, and the impact of legal actions concerning midwifery practice. He emphasizes the pivotal role of the state in supporting midwifery and discusses the difficulties created by increasing interest in midwifery among expectant women and the social forces that inhibit the establishment of a self-governing midwifery profession.

Provinces
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 600

Provinces

Provinces is now established as the most comprehensive yet accessible exploration of Canadian provincial politics and government. The authors of each chapter draw on their particular expertise to examine themes and issues pertaining to all the provinces from a comparative perspective. The book is organized into four major sections – political landscapes, the state of democracy in the provinces, political structures and processes, and provincial public policy. The third edition features eleven new chapters, including: province building, provincial constitutions, provincial judicial systems, plurality voting in the provinces, voting patterns in the provinces, provincial public service, provincial party financing, provincial health policy, social policy, climate change, and labour market policy. All other chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated.

From Rights to Needs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

From Rights to Needs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-07-01
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  • Publisher: UBC Press

This book explores the family allowance phenomenon from the idea's debut in the House of Commons in 1929 to the program's demise as a universal program under the Mulroney government in 1992. Although successive federal governments remained committed to its underlying principle of universality, party politics, bureaucracy, federal-provincial wrangling, and the shifting priorities of citizens eroded the rights-based approach to social security and replaced it with one based on need. In tracing the evolution of one social security program within a national perspective, From Rights to Needs sheds new light on how Canada's welfare state and social policy has been transformed over the past half century.